Title:The case against patents
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Author(s):BOLDRIN, Michele; LEVINE, David K.Date:2013Citation:Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 3-22Type:ArticleAbstract:The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless productivity is identified with the number of patents awarded—which, as ...

Title:Clean Evidence on Peer Effects
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Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; FALK, ArminDate:2005Citation:Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 24, 1Type:ArticleAbstract:We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the "pair" treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer effects were possible. In ...

Title:Clean evidence on peer effects
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Author(s):FALK, Armin; ICHINO, AndreaDate:2006Citation:Journal of labor economics, 2006, 24, 1, 39-58Type:ArticleAbstract:We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the 'pair' treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer effects were possible. In ...

Title:Climbing out of poverty, falling back in : Low incomes’ stability in Spain
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Author(s):CANTÓ SANCHEZ, OlgaDate:2002Citation:Applied economics, 2002, Vol. 34, No. 15, pp. 1903-1916Version:Based on content in the author's EUI PhD thesis, 1998 - http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4882Type:ArticleAbstract:The study of the probability of entering or escaping a low income spell is not sufficient to fully describe a household's experience in deprivation. If poverty spells are recurrent in time, the persistency of poverty for ...